The City's Backyard
The City's Backyard with Matt Zako. A Podcast For New York City's Backyard or any city's backyard across the world! Covering Arts, Entertainment, music and the community!
The City's Backyard
Latest Episodes
The City's Backyard Ep 226 John “Papa” Gros - a New Orleans pianist, organist singer-songwriter has a new cover of Levon Helm's Hurricane from his latest album GIANTS!
John “Papa” Gros (pronounced Grow) is a New Orleans pianist, organist and singer-songwriter whose career reflects the city itself—resilient, rhythmic, steeped in tradition, and always evolving. For more than thirty years, Gros has serv...
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The City's Backyard Ep 225 VANESSA COLLIER, renowned soulful blues saxophonist-vocalist-songwriter and winner of five prestigious Blues Music Awards, continues her year-long "Keep It Saxy" 2026 Tour!
Vanessa Collier is a multi-award-winning songwriter, master musician, and multi-instrumentalist, known for seamlessly weaving together funk, soul, rock, and blues styles through soulful vocals, searing saxophone solos, and witty songwriting ski...
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The City's Backyard Ep 224 "The craft beer movement" with Gregg Glaser from Modern Distillery Age , a trade publication covering the distilled spirits business in America!
This episode is all about BEER in the backyard! Ok that sounds good but more specifically it's really about the craft beer movement. If there is one guy who knows about beer it's Gregg Glaser from Modern Distillery Age. Gr...
The City's Backyard Ep 223 Local favorite Danny Mariano from the band LOVE+WAR warms up for LITA FORD at The Norwalk Oyster Festival Friday September 11th!
Danny Mariano is a local favorite in Fairfield County playing in his band that everyone loves called Bad Boy! He's a lead singer of his new band called Love+War (love and war) where the band just won this year's "Jam at the Dam Battle of the Ba...
The City's Backyard Ep 222 BRIAN DOLZANI as The LONER: The Music of Neil Young. This Connecticut-based troubadour brings everything you want and need from Neil’s music to an intimate club experience!
Brian Dolzani is a contemporary singer/songwriter that possesses an old soul. A listen to his music makes that point abundantly clear. So too, the fact that he lists any number of ‘60s and ‘70s songwriters as prime influences — Bob...
